Martha, an opera in four acts.
Music composed by Friedrich von Flotow. Libretto by Wilhelm Friedrich.
First performance: 25 November 1847 at Theater an der Wien, Vienna.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Zubin Mehta: Lightning conductor ó At almost 70, the Indian maestro Zubin Mehta is still wowing audiences and dividing critics across the globe
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/interviews/article330082.ece
Celebrity So Extraordinaire She Rivaled the Eiffel Tower
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/arts/design/02bern.html
Music is a life science ó Opera aficionado Carolyn Abbate chose music over biology
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/12.01/03-abbate.html
Annapolis Opera will celebrate Mozart’s birthday ‘by candlelight’
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.mary02dec02,1,6343416.story?coll=bal-local-arundel
FAUR…: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2
As the second of four of the thematically organized recording of the Complete Songs of Gabriel FaurÈ (1845-1924), Un paysage choisi is an excellent offering of chansons that concern selected natural places, that is to say, the ìchosen landscapeî indicated in the title of this volume.
PROKOFIEV: Ivan the Terrible
Sergei Prokofievís Ivan the Terrible? Which one? Prokofiev composed music for Sergei Eisensteinís film (part 1, 1942-44; part 2, 1945) about the sixteenth-century ruler, and the score is catalogued as op. 116. After the composerís death, music for the film was arranged first into an oratorio (with speaker, soloists, chorus, and orchestra) by Alexander Stasevich (1961) and later into a concert scenario by Christopher Palmer (1990).
Songs of Vaughan Williams and Ives
Ralph Vaughan Williams and Charles Ives; both known more for their symphonic music than anything else, receive superb tributes in these recordings of some of their early songs. Only two years separate the birth dates of these composers; but the musical language each speaks seems to put far more distance than that between them.